For the purposes of discussion, I'm going to go with generic ideas of vampires and werewolves. I mean, if we got into a discussion comparing Anne Rice vampires to Dresden Files vampires to White Wolf vampires to 30 Days of Night vampires or comparing Dresden Files lycanthropes to White Wolf werewolves to werewolves with Chinese menus in their hands, then we'd be here all day!

So, without further ado, for me, the disadvantages of being a vampire greatly outweigh the disadvantages of being a werewolf.

First of all, werewolves aren't stuck with the curse of immortality. With vampires, you're either cursed with having your loved ones die while you stay the same age, or you make them a vampire and you have to deal with them for all eternity. I don't care how much you love someone, after a few hundred years, living with that person will become intolerable. Even without someone else to share eternity, I think that the pressure of the centuries with nothing but millennia to look forward to is the path to madness, and I don't think I could deal with that.

Secondly, lycanthropes are 24-hour creatures. They can operate in the daytime or the nighttime. Vampires are pretty much stuck indoors for half the day on average. While I am generally a night owl, I don't like having that schedule forced on me by physiology on pain of death.

Thirdly, the things that kill vampires are in far more abundance than the things that kill werewolves. Something as simple as feeling the sun on your face will make you look like you just opened up the Ark of the Covenant if you're a vampire. There aren't a whole lot of people that have silver bullets hanging around.
Source(s):
Years of playing White Wolf's tabletop RPGs, tons of pop culture from Blacula to Warren Zevon, The Vampire Book, and The Werewolf Book (links below).

http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Book-Encyclopedia-Undead/dp/157859071X
http://www.amazon.com/Werewolf-Book-Encyclopedia-Shape-Shifting-Beings/dp/1...

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